Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Barry Orford
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Note on Illustrations
- 1 An Introduction to Denominations and Victorian Churches
- 2 Architecture, Antiquarianism, and Styles
- 3 The Religious Atmosphere in the 1830s and 1840s
- 4 Recusants, Goths, Converts, Ultramontanes, and Controversies
- 5 The Anglican Revival
- 6 The Search for an Ideal
- 7 Church Architecture of the 1850s, 1860s, and Early 1870s
- 8 The Late Victorian Anglican Church in Several Manifestations
- 9 Non-Anglican Buildings for Religious Observance
- 10 Epilogue
- Select Glossary
- Select Bibliography
- Index
5 - The Anglican Revival
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Barry Orford
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Note on Illustrations
- 1 An Introduction to Denominations and Victorian Churches
- 2 Architecture, Antiquarianism, and Styles
- 3 The Religious Atmosphere in the 1830s and 1840s
- 4 Recusants, Goths, Converts, Ultramontanes, and Controversies
- 5 The Anglican Revival
- 6 The Search for an Ideal
- 7 Church Architecture of the 1850s, 1860s, and Early 1870s
- 8 The Late Victorian Anglican Church in Several Manifestations
- 9 Non-Anglican Buildings for Religious Observance
- 10 Epilogue
- Select Glossary
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84): quoted in James Boswell (1740–95): The Life of Samuel Johnson (on Dr John Campbell [1708–75], 1 July 1763).The renewal, in this country, of a taste for Mediæval architecture, and the reapplication of those principles which regulate its design, represent one of the most interesting and remarkable phases in the history of art.
Charles Locke Eastlake (1836–1906): A History of the Gothic Revival (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1872), 1.Introduction
The late 1820s and the 1830s were tumultuous times. Thomas Mozley, divine, journalist, friend, and brother-in-law of Newman, recorded that the ‘whole fabric of English … society, was trembling to the foundations … a thousand projectors were screaming from a thousand platforms ... all England was dinned with philanthropy and revolution’. Quite so, and Mozley’s Reminiscences, Chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement, published in 1882, is a very full account, and, with Newman’s Apologia pro Vita Sua, is essential reading for any student of Tractarianism. Things looked very rocky for the established order of things: there was a disturbing growth of various sects; the Anglican Church and the monarchy were under attack; utilitarianism and unfeeling attitudes towards the less fortunate members of society were causing concern; power was about to shift away from a landed aristocracy and gentry; and a mainly country-dwelling nation was to become urbanised.
Yet during a time of momentous change (1830–7) reigned a king who deserves more credit than he is usually given: supported by his gentle, intelligent consort, Adelaide, William IV steered the British monarchy through a difficult time, leaving it more secure than it had been on the death of his dissipated brother, George IV. Eccentric, bluff, dutiful, and fundamentally decent, known as the ‘Sailor-King’, William deserved the accolades of those who called out as he passed by, ‘Well done, old boy!’
When Victoria was born, her appellation had a foreign sound, exciting some insular prejudice, but gradually it acquired an appropriateness to her reign during which the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland enjoyed unprecedented prestige, and became what is now known as a superpower.
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- English Victorian ChurchesArchitecture, Faith, and Revival, pp. 61 - 82Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2022